It will also put to a practical test the preparedness of the staff departments for the mobilization of troops.

The mobilization of these troops will furnish an excellent opportunity for the instruction of a number of senior officers in the elements of higher command.

The department is mobilizing a division at full strength at San Antonio, Texas, for the purpose of field training of officers and men, and for the further purpose of holding manoeuvres Involving possible operations against Galveston.

Every fibre of my nature rebels against such hypocrisy and nerves me to fight such a combination and such methods to the bitter end, lest success in this instance may form a demoralizing precedent.

I accept your resignation with great reluctance.

There will be assembled at Galveston a force of three regiments for the protection of that place against possible attack by the navy.

I do not hesitate to say that you have been the object of one of the most unscrupulous conspiracies for the defamation of character that history can show.

by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both Houses of the Congress of the United States

to the end that they may consider and determine whether the Congress shall, by the necessary legislation, make operative the agreement

I recommend the approval of the same by the Congress.

By virtue of the power vested in me by the provisions of Article 3 of the Treaty of August 21, 1847 (9 Stat. L., 908), it is hereby ordered that the country ceded by the provisions of said treaty shall no longer be held by the United States as Indian land.